Walery
Persona
fotografo
Indirizzi:
London, Regent Street 164
Paris, 9 Rue de Londres
Conte Stanislaw Julian Ostrorog (1830-1890)
Stanislaw Julian Ignacy, conte Ostrorog (1863-1935)
Walery photographer to the Queen
Ellis & Walery
Walery è stata la firma adottata da due fotografi, un padre e un figlio che hanno entrambi adottato il nome di lavoro Walery. Il primo, il conte Stanislaw Julian Ostrorog (1830-1890), nacque a Mohylewo, in Lituania, ma trascorse gran parte della sua giovinezza a Parigi, dove la famiglia si recò nel 1831 per chiedere asilo politico. Ha servito come capitano nel 5 ° Lancieri, nella divisione polacca e come aiutante di campo, poi è promosso colonnello dell'esercito turco nel 1854. Circa tre anni dopo si trasferisce a Londra, diventando cittadino britannico nel 1862. Come fotografo professionista apre uno studio a Marsiglia e poi uno a Parigi, che vende nel 1878, prima di aprire il suo primo studio a Londra nel maggio 1883 in 5 Conduit Street. In seguito al ritratto fotografico scattato alla Regina Vittoria nel 1886, che riscuote un grande successo, si trasferisce al 164 di Regent Street.
Alla sua morte nel giugno 1890, suo figlio Stanislaw Julian Ignacy, conte Ostrorog (1863-1935) ne prosegue l'attività e successivamente si unisce (tra il 1890-1900) con un altro fotografo Alfred Ellis per diventare Ellis e Walery. Nel 1900 Walery si trasferisce a Parigi per aprire uno studio in Rue de Londres. Ha fotografato le più celebri donne dell'epoca: da Josephine Baker a Mata Hari e Sarah Bernhardt, le scienziate Elizabeth Garrett Anderson e Millicent Fawcett e membri della famiglia reale tra cui la regina Alexandra e la regina Vittoria. Fotografava spesso di tre quarti, considerandola la posa migliore per i ritratti.
Biografia
Walery Ellis
Indirizzo: Londra, Regent Street 164
Indirizzo: Paris, 9 Rue de Londres
Figlio del conte Stanislaw Julian Ostrorog
Fotografo londinese (1890-1900)
Biographical/Historical Note
Between 1888 and 1896 the firm of Walery issued a remarkable series of portraits entitled Our Celebrities which were published as a monthly part-work by the publisher Sampson, Low together with biographical text on the subjects explain why they should be considered to qualify as "celebrities". The part works subsequently became available as bound volumes.
Walery was the by-line adopted by two photographers, a father and son who both adopted the working name Walery. The elder, Count Stanislaw Julian Ostrorog (1830-1890) was born in Mohylewo, Lithuania but spent most of his youth in Paris where the family went in 1831 to take political asylum. He served as a Captain in the 5th Lancers, in the Staff Polish Division as aide-de -camp to General Count Zamoiski on the British Government's payroll under General Storks. Subsequently he was promoted to colonel in the Turkish army in 1854. Around three years later he moved to London. He became a British citizen in 1862. As a professional photographer he first set up a studio in Marseilles and then Paris, which he sold in 1878, before opening his first studio in London in May 1883 at 5 Conduit Street. Following on from his successful portrait sitting with Queen Victoria in 1886 he moved to 164 Regent Street.
On his death in June 1890, his son Stanislaw Julian Ignacy, Count Ostrorog (1863-1935) continued the business and later combined (between 1890-1900) with another photographer Alfred Ellis to become Ellis and Walery. According to records of copyright registration now held at The National Archives at Kew some the later portraits in the "Celebrities" series were taken for Walery by Achille Victor Bosco of Walery Villa in Muswell Hill. In 1894 Walery gave an interview to Woman at Home magazine, which illustrated the extreme splendour of the firm's lavish reception rooms in Regent Street. In 1900 Walery moved to Paris to open a studio on the Rue de Irondes and began to specialise in the showgirls of Folies Bergere and subjects such as Mata Hari.
His portraits of Josephine Baker are particularly celebrated and one from 1926 was recently included in the American National Portrait Gallery's book and exhibition Women of Our Time (2002). This first display of Walery's work focuses on the portraits of leading women of the era including performers Madame Albani, Ellen Terry, Lady Bancroft and Sarah Bernhardt, scientists Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Millicent Fawcett and members of royalty including Queen Alexandra and Queen Victoria. Nearly all the poses show the subjects posed as three quarter length, which Walery believed was the most insightful way of making a portrait study. National Portrait Gallery website. (http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/victorian-women-by-walery.php) Retrieved 1/21/2010.
fonte: hmfa.libs.uga.edu [Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library (university of Georgia)]
